Food scraps can be used to stock the kitchen pantry with your own specialty ingredients. Take for instance, citrus peels from lemons, oranges, limes, tangerines, grapefruit etc. Most often than not once we have eaten the fruit or squeezed the juice, we discard the rind/peel. Lemon (but it applies to all citrus) peels however can…
Author: Sandi Gathuru
Homemade Cream Cheese
Why Have you seen a gorgeous no-bake cheese cake recipe you would like to try? Or maybe you simply want some cream cheese for carrot cake icing, a dip or sandwich spread but … you are broke? Do I sound like a commercial? What to do We are surrounded by people who think outside the box…
How to Make Apple Cider Vinegar
Apples – yay! Apple Pie or cake is in the oven or perhaps you juiced some apples or made a fruit salad. Time to clean up the mess. Do not throw away the peels and core. Confession: I make my own apple cider vinegar because I am into DIY when it comes to caring for my natural hair and…
Sweet Savings – Apple Cider Vinegar
Apples – yay! Apple Pie or cake is in the oven or perhaps you juiced some apples or made a fruit salad. Time to clean up the mess. Do not throw away the peels and core. Confession: I make my own apple cider vinegar because I am into DIY when it comes to caring for my natural hair and…
Chocolate Icing
Hi! How was your week? Flash back Friday to Swaziland. Swaziland was not in the itinerary, but when visiting Mozambique for longer than a month, one is required to leave and re-enter the country after 30 days. Our visa run turned out to be a spontaneous fun road trip to Swaziland. We had lunch at…
The Chocolate Icing Recipe You Need
Hi! How was your week? Flash back Friday to Swaziland. Swaziland was not in the itinerary, but when visiting Mozambique for longer than a month, one is required to leave and re-enter the country after 30 days. Our visa run turned out to be a spontaneous fun road trip to Swaziland. We had lunch at…
Orange Chiffon Cake
Looking to get away this weekend? Away from the city and its hectic demands. Fresh air and some country living? This is a throw back to Nanyuki, while on our way to Samburu National Park some years ago. But in case you have no such plans, we could attempt to bake this orange chiffon cake….
Light as Air Orange Chiffon Cake
Looking to get away this weekend? Away from the city and its hectic demands. Fresh air and some country living? This is a throw back to Nanyuki, while on our way to Samburu National Park some years ago. But in case you have no such plans, we could attempt to bake this orange chiffon cake….
How To Beat Egg Whites
Want to attempt a chiffon cake, sponge cake, lemon pancakes, or a meringue etc this weekend? What they all have in common, is that you have to beat the egg whites to stiff peaks. What? Why? (Confession: Actually I was doing a post on the orange chiffon cake but it was too long and so I decided…
Potato Leek Soup
What are your plans this weekend? We are taking some guests for some fun and a close up with the giraffes at the Giraffe Centre. Cleopatra has nothing on the giraffe’s eye makeup! But since this is a food blog, let’s talk about a simple meal that requires little brain power. We need a few such easy…